Superelements Modelling in Flexible Multibody Dynamics

We present a new implementation of substructuring methods for flexible multibody analysis. In previous developed formulations, we fixed the local axes of the superelement to one node. In this formulation, the reference frame is floating and close, in some sense, to the body center. The local frame i...

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Autor: Cardona, Alberto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2000
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/27719
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/27719
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Multibody Systems
Nonlinear Dynamics
Mechanisms
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Sumario:We present a new implementation of substructuring methods for flexible multibody analysis. In previous developed formulations, we fixed the local axes of the superelement to one node. In this formulation, the reference frame is floating and close, in some sense, to the body center. The local frame is selected based on the positions of the interface nodes of the superelement, and completely independent of the order in which the nodes of the superelement are given. Therefore, the superelement itself depends only on the nodes positions, and on the mass and stiffness properties, thus allowing a very easy interfacing between the finite element program which computed the superelement and the mechanism analysis program.